Road Trip

By Arthur Marronnier

U.S. to consider cellphone use on planes
gigaom.com - by Lauren Hockenson
While flight passengers have been exercising the privilege of using e-books and tablets for the entirety of flights throughout November, it seems …
Apple
Samsung owes Apple $290M more in damages, jury says
CNET - by Shara Tibken
Jury rules that Samsung must pay additional damages for patent infringement. The amount is slightly less than what Apple had requested and brings the total award to about $930 million.
Google responds to Microsoft smear campaign with witty retort about wearable computing
The Verge - Sean Hollister
Yesterday, Microsoft started selling hats, mugs, T-shirts, and hoodies with a distinct anti-Google message, bearing phrases like "keep calm while we steal your data" alongside the Chrome browser logo.
Why Is Maternity Care Such an Issue for Obamacare Opponents?
The Atlantic - Garance Franke-Ruta
The ACA demands insurers fully cover 22 different women's health tests and visit types—yet few have raised conservative ire like covering expectant mothers. Opponents of the Affordable Care Act have settled
Senate Democrats invoke 'nuclear option' on filibuster
Los Angeles Times - By By Michael A. Memoli
WASHINGTON — In a historic move, Democrats in the Senate on Thursday voted to eliminate the use of the filibuster as a tool to block presidential appointments, upending a decades-old precedent that gave
Why scientists are shooting light beams at stacks of graphene
futurity.org - Charlotte Hsu-Buffalo
By firing a beam of infrared light at a stack of graphene sheets, scientists can identify and describe the electronic properties of each individual …
Gamma ray burst could upend leading physics theories
futurity.org - Bjorn Carey-Stanford
When the core of a massive star collapses, it can eject a jet of gas into space at nearly the speed of light. Collisions between the fast-moving gas …
Venus orbits sun within huge band of dust, say scientists
The Guardian - Alok Jha
Scientists have discovered that Venus circles the sun embedded within a huge band of dust that is 10-15 million kilometres high and stretches all the way around its orbit. The finding will help astronomers
Neutrinos: Visitors From Beyond the Galaxy Reach the Antarctic |
TIME
Astronomers have become incredibly skilled at detecting cosmic radiation in all its forms—not just ordinary, visible light, but also light we can’t see, everything from infrared to ultraviolet to gamma